Architecture Quotations | Page 8

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.

There are some architecture changes that need to be made,

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

We're at a very key transition point, ... There are going to be lots of devices, but a new model that makes them work together. It is going to require an architecture approach that is different than what we have today.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Home is where you hang your head.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

Architecture is the work of nations

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Architecture is crystallized music.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;

To build is to be robbed.